我们回天家-第357章
12月21日 赎民的住宅
我们回天家-第357章
Mansions for the Redeemed, December 21
我们回天家-第357章
“在我父的家里,有许多住处。若是没有,我就早已告诉你们了”(约14:2)。{HB386.1}[1]
我们回天家-第357章
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you.—John 14:2.{HB 386.1}[1]
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但是基督藉着祂的牺牲既付了罪的代价,就不单要救赎人类,而也要恢复人类所丧失的主权。凡是第一个亚当所丧失的,第二个亚当都要恢复。先知曾说:“你这羊群的高台,锡安城的山哪,从前的权柄,就是耶路撒冷民的国权,必归与你”(弥4:8)。使徒保罗也曾预言到“上帝之产业被赎”的日子(弗1:14)。上帝创造这地,原本是为圣洁幸福的人类居住的。这旨意仍必实现。当大地被上帝的能力更新,脱离罪恶和忧患时,地就要成为赎民永远居住的所在。{HB386.2}[2]
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Christ, by His sacrifice paying the penalty of sin, would not only redeem mankind, but recover the dominion which they had forfeited. All that was lost by the first Adam will be restored by the second. The prophet says, “O Tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come, even the first dominion.” And Paul points forward to the “redemption of the purchased possession.” God created the earth to be the abode of holy, happy beings. That purpose will be fulfilled when, renewed by the power of God, and freed from sin and sorrow, it shall become the eternal home of the redeemed.{HB 386.2}[2]
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许多人因为要避免把来生的基业看得太具体化,便用“属灵”的解释否定了那应当使我们仰望这基业为我们家乡的真理。但耶稣曾向祂的门徒确切保证说,祂去乃是为要在父的家里为他们预备住处。凡接受圣经教训的人决不至对于天上的住处一无所知。然而“上帝为爱祂的人所预备的,是眼睛未曾看见,耳朵未曾听见,人心也未曾想到的”(林前2:9)。义人的奖赏不是人的言语所能形容的,只有那些身历目睹的人才能知道。上帝乐园的荣美决非人类有限的脑力所能理解的。{HB386.3}[3]
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A fear of making the future inheritance seem too material has led many to spiritualize away the very truths which lead us to look upon it as our home. Christ assured His disciples that He went to prepare mansions for them in the Father’s house. Those who accept the teachings of God’s Word will not be wholly ignorant concerning the heavenly abode. And yet “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the paradise of God.{HB 386.3}[3]
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圣经上称得救之人的基业为“家乡”(来11:14-16),那里有天上的好牧人领祂的群羊到活水的泉源。生命树要每月结果子,其上的叶子要供给万民使用。涌流不竭的清泉,明净如同水晶;河边绿叶成荫,使那为上帝救赎之民所预备的道路更为清幽。广大无垠的平原一直伸到荣美的山麓之下,那里有上帝的圣山,高峰耸立。上帝的子民,就是那些长久飘流的客旅,要在那宁静的平原上,和生命水的河岸边,找到他们的家乡。……{HB386.4}[4]
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In the Bible the inheritance of the saved is called a country. There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations. There are ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ransomed of the Lord. There the wide-spreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God’s people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home. . . .{HB 386.4}[4]
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历代以来流贯人心的一切父子之爱,及启发人性的一切慈善之泉,若与上帝无穷无尽之爱相较,犹如涓涓小川之与浩浩海洋之比而已。(《评论与通讯》1908年10月22日){HB386.5}[5]
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All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men and women, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean, when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God.—Review and Herald, October 22, 1908.{HB 386.5}[5]
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